Germany’s RTL Relaunches Online Gaming Platform

COLOGNE, Germany — German commercial broadcaster RTL has relaunched its online gaming platform Gamechannel.de, signing a series of deals with game makers such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Bigpoint to expand its free-to-play offerings for the German market. RTL put its new game channel online just ahead of this week’s Gamescom, the world’s largest gaming conference and trade fair, which kicks off in Cologne Wednesday.